Danica (given name)

Danica (Cyrillic: Даница) is a Slavic feminine given name. The name means "morning star" and originates from the personification of the morning star (Venus) in Slavic mythology.

Notable people

• Danica Baričević (born 1972), Australian-born Croatian politician
• Danica Crnogorčević, singer of ethno and religious songs and a graduate art historian from Montenegro
• Danica Krstajić, tennis player from Montenegro
• Danica Lee, American actress, best known for voicing Ming-Ming on Wonder Pets!
• Danica, Hereditary Princess of Serbia, Serbian graphic designer and wife of Hereditary Prince Philip
• Danica McKellar, American actress and mathematician, best known for her role as Winnie Cooper on the TV show The Wonder Years
• Danica Milosavljevic (1925–2018), Serbian combat fighter for the Partisan forces in Yugoslavia's National Liberation War
• Danica Patrick, American race car driver
• Danica Rice, Canadian sprint kayaker
• Danica Roem, American politician and journalist
• Danica Seleskovitch (1921–2001), French conference interpreter, teacher and academic writer
• Danica Taylor (born 2001), English television personality
• Danica Thrall, English glamour model and reality television personality
• Danica Wu, Canadian soccer player
• Elvira Dolinar (pen name Danica, 1870–1961), Slovenian feminist writer

Fictional

• Danica Maupoissant, from the Forgotten Realms fictional world of Dungeons and Dragons
• Danica Shardae, the protagonist and narrator of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's fantasy novel Hawksong
• Danica Talos, a vampire character from the 2004 film Blade: Trinity

See also

• Danika (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Danica